饑

饑 (Kangxi radical 184, 食+12, 21 strokes, cangjie input 人戈女戈戈 (OIVII), four-corner 8275₃, composition ⿰飠幾)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1425, character 35
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44397
• Dae Jaweon: page 1951, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4475, character 5
• Unihan data for U+9951

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kɯl) : semantic 食 + phonetic 幾 (OC *kɯl, *kɯlʔ, *ɡɯl, *ɡɯls).

饑

1. crop failure; famine; a year in which harvest is poor

   • 昔周饑，克殷而年豐。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     昔周饥，克殷而年丰。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE, translation from Zuozhuan: Commentary on the "Spring and Autumn Annals" (2017), by Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li and David Schaberg

     Xī Zhōu jī, kè Yīn ér nián fēng. [Pinyin]

     “Formerly, when there was a famine in Zhou, they overcame Yin [Shang] and the harvest became abundant.

2. Alternative form of 飢／饥 (“hunger”)

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04612

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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• On (unclassified): き (ki)
• Kun: うえる (ueru, 饑える)^{←うゑる (uweru, 饑ゑる, historical)}; ひだるい (hidarui, 饑い)

饑 • (gi) (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune–Reischauer ki, Yale ki)

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饑: Hán Nôm readings: cơ

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